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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have really no religion, for my God, being a spirit shown merely by reason to exist, his properties utterly unknown, is no help to my life. I have nor the parson's comfortable doctrine that every good action has its reward, and every sin is forgiven. My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter."

People Believe Wish
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
Believe

"My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true. Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity."

Believe Opportunity Responsibility
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience has been able to produce in millions of years."

Believe Years Omnipotence
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision of the majority, be it wise or unwise, until such a time that the majority reaches another decision."

Believe Wise Freedom
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires"

People Believe Numbers
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points."

Men Believe Stupid
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"There was a law in Connecticut - I believe it is still formally unrepealed - making it illegal for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday."

Believe Kissing Sunday
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma is, therefore, merely to carry the movement one stage further. Moral fervor is the essence of the matter."

Believe Essence Movement
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"Protagoras did not know if the gods exist, but he held in any case they ought to be worshiped. Philosophy, according to him, had nothing edifying to teach, and for the survival of morals we must rely upon the thoughtlessness of the majority and their willingness to believe what they had been taught."

Believe Philosophy Rely Upon
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices."

Believe Mind Attitude
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man and woman who love each other with passion and imagination and tenderness, there is something of inestimable value, to be ignorant of which is a great misfortune to any human being."

Believe Life Passion
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors."

Believe Presidential Society
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another."

Believe World Land
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life."

Believe Dream Waking Life
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
Believe

"Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts."

Thinking Believe Wish
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery."

Believe Done Belief
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with the most toys is still dead. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."

Believe Opposites Getting What You Want
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